Tariq Tahir of Yonkers was recently sentenced to five years of probation and ordered to pay more than $800,000 in restitution for committing tax fraud while running his Yonkers-based business, DNS Construction Corp.
Tahir, 67, pleaded guilty in March to committing two counts of tax fraud by failing to pay more than $800,000 in taxes from 2006 to 2008, according to an announcement from Preet Bharara, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
From 2006 through 2008, Tahir engaged in two tax fraud schemes in order to avoid paying income and payroll taxes, the U.S. attorney’s office said. In the first scheme, Tahir cashed checks at multiple check-cashing businesses in Manhattan and Brooklyn rather than depositing those checks into the bank accounts of DNS in an attempt to conceal the corporation”™s true revenues from state and federal tax authorities. In the second scheme, Tahir paid DNS”™s employees primarily in cash in order to hide these salary payments on federal tax returns from tax authorities.
Of the total $883,730.52 Tahir was ordered to pay in restitution, $771,710.32 is owed to the Internal Revenue Service and $112,020.20 is owed to the state Department of Taxation and Finance.
